{"id":105482,"date":"2021-12-03T07:20:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T15:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=105482"},"modified":"2021-12-03T07:20:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T15:20:28","slug":"average-la-county-gas-price-drops-for-sixth-consecutive-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2021\/12\/03\/average-la-county-gas-price-drops-for-sixth-consecutive-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Average LA County gas price drops for sixth consecutive day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/gas-pump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105305\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/gas-pump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"918\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/gas-pump.jpg 918w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/gas-pump-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/gas-pump-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 918px) 100vw, 918px\" \/><\/a>The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County dropped Friday for the sixth consecutive day after hitting a record high, decreasing six-tenths of a cent to $4.696.<\/p>\n<p>The average price has dropped 2 cents over the past six days, including four-tenths of a cent Thursday, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service. The streak of decreases follows a run of 16 increases in 18 days totaling 12.5 cents that boosted the average price to a record $4.716 Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The average price is 1.6 cents less than one week ago but 11.2 cents more than one week ago and $1.54 higher than one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Orange County average price dropped for the six time in seven days since moving within one-tenth of a cent of matching its record high, dropping four-tenths of a cent to $4.666. It has dropped 2.3 cents over the past seven days, including eight-tenths of cent Thursday,\u00a0\u00a0its largest daily decline since Aug. 20.<\/p>\n<p>The Orange County average price is 12.3 cents more than one month ago and $1.534 greater than one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expect prices to continue downward for the rest of the year provided no incidents affect supply, because this is traditionally the time of year with the lowest demand,&#8221; said Jeffrey Spring, the Automobile Club of Southern California&#8217;s corporate communications manager. &#8220;Oil prices have backed down significantly in the last month and that should help to drive down pump prices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County dropped Friday for the sixth consecutive day after hitting a record high, decreasing six-tenths of a cent to $4.696. The average price has dropped 2 cents over the past six days, including four-tenths of a cent Thursday, according to figures from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105483,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105482\/revisions\/105483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}